мощи

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic мощи pl (mošti), the plural of мощь (moštĭ, “power”). Probably a calque of Byzantine Greek δυνάμεις (dunámeis, “powers, manifestations of sainthood/divinity”).

мощи • (mošti) f pl

1. (plural only) relics (remnants of a saint's body)

• “мощи”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мощи”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мощи”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 270
• “мощи”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мощь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• мошти (mošti)

From Proto-Slavic *moťi, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“be able, capable”). Cognate with English may, Sanskrit मघ (magha, “power”), Persian مغ (“Zoroastrian priest”), Old High German mugan (“be able”).

мощи • (mošti) pf

1. to be able

мощи • (mošti) f plural of мошть (moštĭ)

1. (religion) relics
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 2919-1921:

     да бѫдетъ проклѧтъ иже свѧтꙑихъ вьсѣхъ не чьтетъ ни кланꙗѥтъ сѧ съ любъвиѭ мощемъ ихъ

     da bǫdetŭ proklętŭ iže svętyixŭ vĭsěxŭ ne čĭtetŭ ni klanjajetŭ sę sŭ ljubŭvijǫ moštemŭ ixŭ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎^[1], София

• Koch, Christoph (1990) “§ 53 Konj. I.1a,1b1 (mogǫ mošti)”, in Das morphologische System des altkirchenslavischen Verbums‎^[2] (in German), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, page 597

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoɕːɪ]

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic мощи (mošti), plural of мошть (moštĭ), from Proto-Slavic *mogťi. Cognate to мощь (moščʹ), мочь (močʹ).

мо́щи • (móšči) m inan pl (genitive моще́й, plural only)

1. (religion) relics

Phrases

• по моща́м и еле́й (po moščám i jeléj)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мощь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мощи”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 546
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “мощи”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN

мо́щи • (móšči) f inan

1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular of мощь (moščʹ)